Lead Business Analyst

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Job Description:\n\nJOB SUMMARYThis role is responsible for leveraging analytical skills to identify, prioritize, and solve complex problems. The individual will work closely with customers to understand and define enterprise goals and objectives, and act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for business and strategic needs. Contribution to sprint planning and estimation, highlighting dependencies and constraints, is expected.Key Responsibilities- Use analytical skills and judgment to identify, prioritize, structure, and solve complex problems.- Work closely with customers to understand and define enterprise goals and objectives.- Contribute to sprint planning and estimation by highlighting dependencies, constraints, and business impact.- Act as the primary point of contact for the customer and serve as an SME for business and strategic needs.- Apply Business Analysis knowledge areas to address business problems.- Analyze business needs and solutions, devise strategies, and facilitate stakeholder collaboration.- Validate and verify information to identify solution options that meet business needs.- Align designed and delivered solutions with stakeholder needs.- Establish and implement effective requirement creation and management practices.- Champion requirements elicitation using proven techniques such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, and use cases.- Define the solution approach, identify business improvement opportunities, allocate requirements, and develop design options.- Define software quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other non-functional requirements.- Monitor the market for technologies and processes related to business analysis information management.- Develop training materials and tips for stakeholders to improve their efficiency with business analysis tools.- Coordinate with large or multiple teams across functions, issues, locations, and time zones to manage responsibilities and interdependencies.- Develop a network of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) both internally and externally.- Develop innovative approaches for using new tools, templates, and processes.- Develop engagement strategies to support organizational transformation.- Assist in driving transformational programs for the organization/customer's enterprise.- Proactively identify business problems, constraints, and dependencies to deliver tangible benefits.- Champion written and verbal communication, specific to engagements, with stakeholders.- Negotiate options against value delivered with stakeholders.- Develop and drive adoption of tools, templates, and processes for aligning requirements and design.- Demonstrate mastery of business analysis tools for eliciting, documenting, and managing requirements.- Use metrics and strategic analysis to recommend appropriate solutions to business problems.- Establish and ensure team adherence to engagement-specific processes.- Maintain documentation of processes and project artifacts to high standards.- Manage and communicate project artifacts to various stakeholder groups.- Conduct necessary trainings and workshops within project teams and the organization to grow the BA community.- Monitor junior Business Analysts and assist in identifying areas for improvement and new learning opportunities.- Assist in identifying new business opportunities and recommending solutions proactively.- Analyze, synthesize, and refine elicitation results into requirements and designs.- Continually monitor the industry for best practices in design options.- Apply foresight when connecting concepts to enterprise components.- Develop approaches and tactics for improving organizational understanding regarding analyzing potential value for solution recommendations.- Capture and broadcast best practices in solution limitation assessment.- Determine how external factors restrict the full realization of a solution's value.- Develop and drive adoption of tools, templates, and processes to identify external factors restricting solution value realization.- Consistently identify the root cause of systemic issues.- Recommend actions that maximize value, regularly providing input that is implemented by leadership.- Develop and drive adoption of tools, templates, and processes for developing transition states.- Develop metrics and a rating system for evaluating solutions.- Develop and proactively drive adoption of new tools or templates for evaluating alternatives.- Capture and broadcast change strategy best practices.Required Qualifications- Analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.- Proficiently use analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to analyze problems and opportunities effectively, identify value-driving changes, and understand their impact with stakeholders.- Ability to rapidly assimilate various types of information.- Ability to quickly choose effective and adaptable methods to learn and analyze data.- Competencies in Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Learning, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking, Conceptual Thinking, and Visual Thinking.- Exhibit behavioral characteristics to gain trust and respect of stakeholders.- Continuously exhibit, practice, and preach competencies such as Ethics, Personal Accountability, Trustworthiness, Organization and Time Management, and Adaptability.- Good knowledge to perform effectively within the business, industry, organization, solution, or methodology in which the business analyst operates.- Ability to recognize potential limitations and opportunities.- Understand risks involved in the work area and make suitable decisions to manage them.- Demonstrated understanding of current trends, market forces, market drivers, key processes, services, products, definitions, customer segments, suppliers, practices, and regulations.- Adaptation of communication styles and techniques to the knowledge level and communication styles of recipients.- Ability to speak the language of stakeholders.- Proficiency in using a variety of communication methods (verbal, non-verbal, physical, and written) along with exceptional listening skills.- Ability to assist conversations to reach productive conclusions.- Ability to relate, cooperate, and communicate with different kinds of people including executives, sponsors, colleagues, team members, developers, vendors, learning and development professionals, end users, customers, and subject matter experts (SMEs).- Ability to facilitate stakeholder communication, provide leadership, encourage comprehension of solution value, and promote stakeholder support of proposed changes.- Exceptional negotiation and conflict resolution skills.- Good working knowledge of various software applications and tools to support communication and collaboration.- Ability to create and maintain requirements artifacts, model concepts, track issues, and increase overall productivity.- Excellent knowledge of prototyping and simulation tools, as well as specialized tools for modeling and diagramming.- Experience with requirements management technologies supporting requirements workflow, approval, baselining, traceability, change control, and management.- Well-versed in the use of required tools and technology, including presentation software for communication and collaboration.- Advanced knowledge of various Business Analysis techniques and the expertise to select and use the right technique for the area of work.- Expertise in developing process flow diagrams, use cases, current/future state diagrams, and functional/technical requirements in the form of user stories or as indicated by the customer.- Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies.- Developed a network of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) inside and outside of the organization.Preferred Qualifications- Strategist expertise level in various BA knowledge areas (recommended by IIBA or any other professional organization for Business Analysis).- Develop and proactively drive adoption of tools, templates, and processes for planning a business analysis approach.- Create new and innovative formal and informal processes, tools, or techniques for discovery.- Develop engagement strategies to support organizational transformation and address stakeholders that resist change.- Engage others to share information.- Capture and broadcast best practices in planning stakeholder engagement.- Develop a new organizational structure for managing business analysis information.- Develop new processes to identify and overcome business performance issues.- Develop non-traditional ideas for identifying business analysis performance improvement opportunities.- Create new tools and strategies for identifying innovative solutions.- Continually monitor processes, seeking opportunities for improvement.- Recognized by leadership as an authority in analyzing performance and developing improvement plans.- Create elicitation support material templates for others to use.- Develop approaches and tactics for developing greater organizational understanding.- Foster a collaborative approach to encourage feedback, opinions, and acceptance towards the use of elicitation tools and templates.- Seek advice, support, and training from others on effectively preparing for elicitation.- Quickly understand team capabilities and skill/knowledge gaps.- Consistently find "common ground" between differing viewpoints.- Define strategies and plans for influencing multiple decision makers.- Develop and proactively drive adoption of tools to help others adjust their communication style.- Provide examples for handling circumstances with the right messaging.- Develop an approach to assess newly elicited results with source information and against other elicitation results.- Create new methods for locating data and analyzing its accuracy, importance, and validity.- Debate issues to bring the most critical points to the forefront for decision making.- Anticipate objections and proactively overcome them with data.- Routinely perform scenario planning and exercise due diligence when validating information.- Develop a repeatable approach for communicating business analysis information.- Recognized as an authority on customizing messaging to various levels of an organization.- Fostered a collaborative approach to collect feedback, opinions, and acceptance towards the adoption of new approaches to communicate business analysis information.- Recognized by leadership as an authority in enhancing collaborative relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.- Consistently maintain enriched relationships with stakeholders.- Create innovative ways to use common techniques, such as Functional Decomposition, for aligning requirements and design.- Recognized as a visionary in aligning requirements and designs, leading to requests from leadership to lead complex change initiatives.- Mastered several business analysis tools, resulting in frequent engagement by peers for support.- Develop and drive adoption of an archival system for historical requirements and their implementation.- Plan and devise innovative ways to maintain requirements and designs for reuse, ensuring accuracy and consistency.- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in prioritization, leading to authority to resolve issues independently.- Fostered a collaborative approach to obtain feedback, opinions, and agreement on new prioritization methods.- Captured prioritization best practices and broadcasted them.- Incorporated relevant product, service, business, and industry acumen in prioritization.- Created new ways to assess the possibilities of situations resulting from changes to requirements and designs.- Applied foresight when connecting concepts to enterprise components.- Recognized by leadership as an authority in evaluating the impact of proposed changes to requirements and designs.- Assembled and/or developed resources, processes, and tools to deal with unforeseen issues to obtain approval of requirements effectively.- Developed a go-to network of empowered people and resources who are quick to respond.- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in obtaining agreement and approval of requirements and designs.- Analyzed current state to understand reasons for change and the impact of the change.- Applied foresight to predict external drivers for change and recommend how to address them.- Consistently influenced business policies and practices.- Created new ways to identify all potential alternatives to address business needs.- Recognized by leadership as an authority in determining the conditions to meet business needs.- Applied foresight to identify and overcome potential roadblocks.- Predicted competitor actions and how to counteract them.- Recognized by leadership as an authority in preventing undesirable consequences during transition to the future state.- Developed and proactively drive adoption of new tools or templates for evaluating alternatives.- Developed an innovative approach for using new tools, templates, and processes that explain the rationale for adoption.- Captured change strategy best practices and broadcasted them.- Developed new and innovative evaluation methods, including metrics and measurement tools.- Captured best practices in measuring solution performance and broadcasted them.- Analyzed business-related metrics found on financial statements and made appropriate recommendations.- Developed non-traditional ideas for analyzing performance measures.- Created and drove adoption of tools, templates, and processes that help identify internal factors restricting the full realization of a solution’s value.- Developed new and innovative methodologies for problem-solving and critical thinking.- Captured best practices on assessing solution limitations and broadcasted them.- Determined how external factors are restricting the full realization of solution value.- Monitored the industry for approaches or insights to determine and overcome external factors restricting solution value realization.- Recognized by leadership as an authority in recommending actions that maximize value.- Frequently asked for input, and recommendations are typically implemented by leadership.- Developed an innovative approach for using new tools, templates, and processes that explain the rationale for adoption.- Contributed knowledge/skill into a network and drew knowledge/skill from the network appropriately.- Created innovative ways of performing various BA tasks using common techniques.Certifications Education: Certification\n\nCompany Description:\n\nCompunnel Inc., established in 1994; is a leading provider of Staffing, IT/Software, e-Learning/Training, Business Intelligence, and Cloud Solutions. A leader in contingent and permanent workforce solutions, we also provide temp-to-hire staffing, project-based/SOW staffing, and payroll services to our esteemed clientele which includes Fortune 500 companies of diverse industry segments. Ranked as one of th

Company Description

Compunnel Inc., established in 1994; is a leading provider of Staffing, IT/Software, e-Learning/Training, Business Intelligence, and Cloud Solutions. A leader in contingent and permanent workforce solutions, we also provide temp-to-hire staffing, project-based/SOW staffing, and payroll services to our esteemed clientele which includes Fortune 500 companies of diverse industry segments. Ranked as one of the largest staffing firms in the US which is our primary service market; we also have a significant presence in Europe and Asia. As a national service provider in the US, we are serving our customers all major states and regions; thereby generating numerous job opportunities for prospective employees in their preferred locations of choice.\r\n\r\nWe have witnessed multi-fold YOY growth, and continuously adding a large pool of talented resources to our employee base every year. Our extensive experience in hiring professionals of multiple in-demand skill sets (IT, Engineering, Healthcare, Admin-Clerical, Finance, Professional, Light Industrial, etc.) further makes Compunnel a wider and preferred platform for people to pursue their careers in the US. We welcome people from all walks of life and cultures, and we support workforce diversity by providing equal employment opportunities to people without any discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, national/ethnic region, disability, or any other basis.